The Fucino 250–170 ka tephra record: new insights on peri-Tyrrhenian explosive volcanism, central mediterranean tephrochronology, and timing of the MIS 8-6 …

L Monaco, N Leicher, DM Palladino, I Arienzo… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fucino Basin, central Italy, with its long and continuous history of Quaternary
sediment accumulation, is one of the richest Mediterranean Middle Pleistocene tephra …

The dawn of the Late Villafranchian: Paleoenvironment and age of the Pantalla paleontological site (Italy; Early Pleistocene)

M Cherin, G Basilici, M Duval, Q Shao, MJ Sier… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochronology is the most widely used method for organizing the successions of continental
vertebrate faunas in geological time and for allowing the correlation of continental deposits …

Atmospheric CO2 forcing on Mediterranean biomes during the past 500 kyrs

A Koutsodendris, V Dakos, WJ Fletcher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is growing concern on the survival of Mediterranean forests under the projected near-
future droughts as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Here we determine the …

New records of vegetation and climate changes in the Sea of Marmara during the Marine Isotope Stages 3, 4 and 5 (ac)

D Biltekin, KK Eriş, MN Çağatay, P Henry… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
A giant piston core MRS-CS27 sedimentary sequence in the Sea of Marmara (SoM) was
investigated by palynological analysis to evaluate the paleoenvironmental and climate …

A combined palaeomodelling approach reveals the role as selective refugia of the Mediterranean peninsulas

L Macaluso, A Bertini, G Carnevale, JT Eronen… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The northern Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians show contrasting biogeographic
histories during the Plio-Pleistocene. The influence of European climate changes on the …

Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia

S Brechbühl, L van Vugt, E Gobet… - Vegetation History and …, 2024 - Springer
Detailed knowledge about the interactions between vegetation, climate and land use during
the Mesolithic and Neolithic, at the transition from foraging to farming, is still scarce in the …

Moist and warm conditions in Eurasia during the last glacial of the Middle Pleistocene Transition

MF Sánchez Goñi, T Extier… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The end of the Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT,~ 800-670 thousand years before
present, ka) was characterised by the emergence of large glacial ice-sheets associated with …

The geodynamic and limnological evolution of Balkan Lake Ohrid, possibly the oldest extant lake in Europe

B Wagner, P Tauber, A Francke, N Leicher, SA Binnie… - Boreas, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of the upper 447 m of the DEEP site sediment succession from central Lake Ohrid,
Balkan Peninsula, North Macedonia and Albania provided important insights into the …

[HTML][HTML] One million years of Mediterranean outflow strength

IN McCave - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
An orbitally tuned age model is established, based principally on sortable silt mean
grainsize (SS¯, proxy for flow speed), for sediments deposited under the influence of the …

The PaleoJump database for abrupt transitions in past climates

W Bagniewski, DD Rousseau, M Ghil - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Tipping points (TPs) in Earth's climate system have been the subject of increasing
interest and concern in recent years, given the risk that anthropogenic forcing could cause …